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To help, Pacific Lutheran University is again partnering with Tacoma’s Communities in Schools for the Stuff the Bus campaign to provide backpacks, school supplies, clothing and shoes to more than 4,000 Tacoma children in need—a goal of 1,000 more than last year, when more than 40 local businesses and organizations helped collect school supplies to fill 3,000 backpacks. A single notepad…

Forrest Griek '00, '02 was named a national “Emerging Leader” in education by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. The two-year Emerging Leaders program “prepares a young, diverse group of educators to help shape education policy and advocate for the whole child (the long-term development and success of children).”

By Zach Powers ’10PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (July 27, 2015)- Known as the Rainier Writing Workshop (RWW), Pacific Lutheran University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program challenges its students to consider difficult questions relating to artistry, self-awareness and commission. “What are your goals as a student and maker of literature, as an artist contributing to the conversation…

The 10-day workshop, the annual summer residency of Pacific Lutheran University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, is known and respected for its innovative programming, which helps writers generate—and answer—deep questions about poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction … and their own aspirations. As vital as the students are to the program, though, they’re just part of the bigger RWW…

This year’s event will feature a special guest, Alana Simmons, whose grandfather, Daniel Simmons, was one of the 9 victims in June’s deadly shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. Simmons made national headlines when she, along with family members of other victims, confronted and publicly forgave her grandfather’s killer, Dylann Roof, in a South Carolina courtroom just days after the massacre. “Hate won’t…

Particularly significant to PLU and its students, the new budget will sustain funding of the State Need Grant program (SNG) for private university students.* The new budget ensures that, for the next several years, SNG awards for present and incoming Lutes will be the same dollar amount as the 2014-15 academic year. “PLU currently enrolls more than 600 students (more…

Ince specializes in financial derivatives and investments and is a CFA charter holder and Registered Investment Advisor in the state of Washington. He joined the CFA Society Seattle in 2003, soon after earning his CFA designation. Over the years he took on a variety of responsibilities, including founding chair of the Investment Research Challenge, University Relations Chair, Trustee, Treasurer, Programming…

2015 PRNDI Awards (Public Radio News Directors, Inc.) The PRNDI Awards recognize the best of local public-radio news in a wide array of categories. KPLU collected four awards amid stiff competition, with more than 1,100 entries submitted by public radio newsrooms across the country. This year, 130 awards were handed out to public radio newsrooms on June 27 at PRNDI’s annual conference…

At first glance, Success Soccer Camp doesn’t appear to be very different than most other sports camps, but it’s quickly evident that Hacker and her team are preparing campers for far more than just the autumn soccer season.

Kari Plog ’11 has spent her first two years as a reporter for The (Tacoma) News Tribune covering stories ranging from sexual harassment in a jail facility in Fife, to a deadly boat ramp in Tacoma, to Super Bowl XLVIII in New York City. Earlier this month, Plog was named “New Journalist of the Year” by the Society of Professional Journalists…